In the many catalogues from UK and other countries trade houses, for Reg Hardy who was the manager for such a long time and the final owner, was an inveterate writer to these companies seeking products, distribution rights etc, were some hand made data books, which were for the use of himself and his staff to identify parts required from counter and mail order inquiries to assist with sales.

They are fascinating for this use, but now form a very useful reference tool...

This will be the start of a series as I often do, until all the data is displayed....

One of the books featured pages cut out from various motorcycle manufacturers catalogues with reference to the items they could sell to the public...

Lets starts with Velocette.....

Then from their bearing catalogue sheet..Velocette, then BTH, Lucas and Miller...

Some Omodei adverts from motorcycling magazines in 1936,1937, 1957 and 1980....

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

I'm in a folder I saved some photos of Artur Fenzlau's taken during 1957 in events in Austria.

I've done some four other posts of his photos...easily accessed with the search facility on the RHS on this blog...type in Fenzlau....

Again
acknowledgement is made to the Technical Museum of Austria in Vienna .... http://www.technischesmuseum.at/Aand
the estate of the late Artur Fenzlau for this non commercial posting of
these photographs...Most were unlabelled and not having a program etc I can't help here...but I suspect they were at the hillclimb in a Vienna suburb.

A couple from a meeting in 1959 and 1960....

And finally some BMW Rennsport photos, some have been displayed before....

Acknowledgement of items used in this Blog from my archive...

I often feature items from older Motorcycle magazines, including photographs and other drawings, cartoons etc in my Blog. Where possible I acknowledge their source. These items are often from "MotorCycle" and "MotorCycling", and the current copyright holders are Mortons Motor Cycle Media. I thank them for their use.

Where other sources are used such as Fox Photos, Keystone Press and other now defunct press agencies from the UK and elsewhere I attempt to acknowledge their source.

You are free to use any item from my Blog, but PLEASE give credit to the source.

DQ on his Velo Special

Velo Thruxton at speed

About Me

I've motorcycled since the early 1960s...both in Australia, the USA,NZ and UK to where my long suffering wife and I rode a 1972 BMW R50/5 motorcycle via the overland route through Asia in 1974. Careers in Animal Physiology and Automotive Instruments and now finally semi retired into music...as a banjoist in Trad./Dixieland Jazz bands.
Life for me is very interesting......